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sonicus
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Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4713
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 - 4:14 pm:   Edit Post

http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/10900/Acoustic-Hologram-Levitates-Without-Physical-Contact.aspx

Fascinating !
rustyg61
Senior Member
Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 1778
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 - 6:00 pm:   Edit Post

Cool! I want a platform I can plug my bass into & levitate while I play!
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4714
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 - 6:39 pm:   Edit Post

Hey Rusty , I was thinking the same thing. No better way to live the " High Life " !

Wolf
rustyg61
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Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 1780
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 - 6:48 pm:   Edit Post

My son bought me a ticket to do one of those simulated sky diving things that has the huge fan that blows you up in the air. I wonder if they would let me bring my bass? I could do my Andy West imitation!

sonicus
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Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4715
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, January 18, 2016 - 7:02 pm:   Edit Post

Very cool ! There is one of those " Big Fan " sky diving places in my county. I have wanted to check it out ! Perhaps for my 60th Birthday
rustyg61
Senior Member
Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 1781
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 12:25 am:   Edit Post

I would never jump out of an airplane, but I've always wanted to do one of the simulators. They built a new one a block from my oldest son's house so my youngest son gave us all tickets for Christmas to do it together!
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 4716
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 2:04 am:   Edit Post

That sounds like fun ! I can not see my self jumping out of an airplane either. I have a friend who served as a paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam era who tells me it became second nature. The jump became fun he will tell you and what and what was to transpire at low altitude and landing was the possible complication. He was a radioman and path finder and never hurt anyone and he was also a combat artist and an amazing sketcher and and painter. He kind of remeinds me of Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., better known by his stage name Slim Pickens.
slim
peoplechipper
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Username: peoplechipper

Post Number: 654
Registered: 2-2009
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 7:55 pm:   Edit Post

My old Doctor and my Chiropractor have banned me from bungee jumping and skydiving; apparently if I have too hard a landing the 2 busted vertebrae could basically explode and cripple me...I might try the simulator though...Tony
rustyg61
Senior Member
Username: rustyg61

Post Number: 1786
Registered: 2-2011
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 9:12 pm:   Edit Post

My son is coming home from LA May 5 so we are going to do the simulator then. I'll let you know how it goes!
elwoodblue
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Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 1805
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2016 - 11:43 pm:   Edit Post

What Fun!!
Just watch those Fizzy Lifters:-)

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